HUGHES led calculator Q

[Phasar66]

Got my first Hughes calculator yesterday from a girl from Alaska, 275.00 US dollars I think was a good price for a working piece and is in great condition.
On an Email she said it worked that just need batteries, it was true, somehow when I got it it had new batteries but the caseback was screwed in top to bottom
and the battery holes where off center. It has 4 screw in hatches and it says "DISPLAY" did all the Hughes ones have display written on the caseback?
Also I have no manual but I know by pushing C it goes into calculator mode and pushing time pusher goes back to time or leaving the display lit it will go off in a couple of seconds. Thanks Peter [CRAZYWATCHES] but the estrange thing is that if I push the time pusher to go off calculator all the digits go crazy like all segment going in circles for like a second to end back to the original display then display goes off calculator mode.. pushing C to clear and wait 2 seconds to go off seems to work better. everything works great except this. any thoughts?

[Kasper]

great catch for sure

[bucko170]

Got my first Hughes calculator yesterday from a girl from Alaska, 275.00 US dollars I think was a good price for a working piece and is in great condition.......

I would say 'congratulations' that is a bargain price!

........It has 4 screw in hatches and it says "DISPLAY" did all the Hughes ones have display written on the caseback?

Both mine have 'Display' stamped on the case backs, not because the watches were display models (as I first thought might be the case ) it's because the lower batteries power the display.

.....the strange thing is that if I push the time pusher to go off calculator all the digits go crazy like all segment going in circles for like a second to end back to the original display then display goes off calculator mode.. pushing C to clear and wait 2 seconds to go off seems to work better. everything works great except this. any thoughts?

Mine do this too, I have had my gold filled one for several years and it is still working despite this so I figure it is just a quirk of the watch and nothing to worry about although I do avoid deliberately making the display go nuts - just in case.

[azimuth_pl]

Congrats!
Some of these do go into that weird flickering mode due to some internal shorts.
I would not worry for now so enjoy the watch.

[Phasar66]

Thanks guys, I also thought a got a Display model but now it makes sense having 4 hatches and the two lower ones power the display, I like this caseback batter than having the single door or the the one that snaps to the case. also I hear that there are other revisions to the module with dow, probably the very last ones did.

From now on I will just let the display go of calculator mode after pressing C and forget about pushing the time pusher, just in case like Mick said. Yes is true that quality wise in not to Pulsar or HH1 standards but is a nice chunk of metal just 18g heavier than Pulsar with good presence on the wrist and attention getter.